CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 45-year-old woman was stabbed to death Sunday morning on the East Side, less than a week after she filed for divorce and asked for a restraining order.

Shana Gardner's husband, Ramon Carson, 51, was arrested about 1:30 a.m. at their home in the 10900 block of Grantwood Avenue.

Police received a call from Carson's brother, who lives in Pennsylvania, Sgt. Sammy Morris said.

When officers arrived, Carson told them that his wife was upstairs in a bedroom. She had been stabbed multiple times, Morris said.

Gardner was pronounced dead at the scene. Carson declined to say anything further to the officers, Morris said.

Carson is charged with aggravated murder and will be arraigned Tuesday morning in Cleveland Municipal Court.

Gardner filed for divorce and a restraining order Aug. 2. Carson was served with the paperwork the same day. Court records also indicate the couple did not have children, but did have financial problems.

Carson was being supervised by a probation officer after being released from prison on a conviction for failing to pay child support. He was sentenced Oct. 21, 2008 to nine months in prison after violating probation.

He was sentenced in December 2005 to six months in prison for violating probation on a burglary conviction in October 2002.

Gardner was due in Cleveland Municipal Court Aug. 17 on a wrongful entrustment charge. The charge usually involves letting an unlicensed, uninsured or intoxicated person drive your car.

Carson is the second Cleveland man accused in the last two weeks of killing his wife after she obtained a restraining order. Tonya Hunter-Lyons was stabbed to death July 25 at her Walden Avenue home. Husband Maurice Lyons, 38, is charged with aggravated murder.

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